CrazedProfessional
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Ping is irrelevant, I have much lower pings and the tickrate is still a major issue.
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Ping is irrelevant, I have much lower pings and the tickrate is still a major issue.
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Shake Appeal
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It's not; it's a relatively minor issue. And your "ping" is only one factor among many.
It's relevant since it doesn't matter what your ping is if the one who is shooting you has a higher ping.
I am almost sure that is what Project Titan was going to be before they axed it and salvaged OW from it.
I don't have any proof but it just seems like theo only answer to how this game came from the ashes of project Titan
CrazedProfessional
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This is the only shooter where I get shot through walls. It isn't ping, it's Blizzard. I have 30 ping in here and TF2 and TF2 has none of that bullshit. There is something seriously wrong with the tickrate and some of the hitboxes that will simply outright hinder this game for both players like me and competitive players.
There's countless videos on these problems and FPS junkies know the science behind this. It's simply lazy netcode.
TheRedSnifit
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This would not cause discrepancies between what the client does and what the server sees them doing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0zbpPCdhGk
Better?
It's basically what BF3 and BF4 were like. Dying behind walls were the norm in those games. They mostly fixed it in BF4 when they added higher tickrate servers though.
Ping isn't remotely irrelevant. Your ping, and their ping, and the fluctuations of them, are in all likelihood a lot more relevant than tickrate.
CrazedProfessional
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Exactly.
jediyoshi
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It's funny how much people have latched on to tickrate as an indicator if only because Blizzard's networking video they released in hopes to clarify their netcode specifically addressed the term. Whereas aside from CSGO, most shooters never have playerbases bring up tickrate as much relative to the obvious factors like dedicated servers and their locations.
Shake Appeal
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I am sorry, but this is not true, and there are several videos that patiently explain what's actually happening when you get "shot through walls," including one from Blizzard themselves. FPS junkies, in most cases, have proven they don't understand the "science" behind this, and saying that you have "30 ping" shows that you don't either.
There is now a widespread phenomenon where everyone who's read an angry forum post or watched a painful montage of high-latency play thinks they can, with a glance of their fallible human eye, detect 35ms disparities in a complex simulation that is influenced by many factors, one of the less significant of which is tickrate.
This one's great and supports my point! I don't know why people keep drawing the wrong conclusions when he patiently explains what's happening.
Ahem!Playing zayra is real tough, no one wants to commend and you never get play of the game
There's a great guide on the Black watch subreddit if you want to improve with her. Check my post history or a few pages back.
CrazedProfessional
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Wow, it's almost as if people who play a game often compared to a Valve game will use their prior experiences as a benchmark to detect inconsistencies.
That doesn't mean your explanation is correct.
Zarya is actually the only character where I regularly get comments from my team and the other side. I once had someone say they refused to vote on the end cards because mine wasn't there, feels good man.
Her ult tends to enable other people to get POTG over you, but hey it's always clear who actually made that play.
Her ult tends to enable other people to get POTG over you, but hey it's always clear who actually made that play.
CrazedProfessional
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Increasing the tickrate will improve gameplay significantly. The fact that Overwatch has a low tickrate compared to other FPS simply shows exactly how new Blizzard is to the genre.
SpacePirate Ridley
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Its like one of my Valencian mascletas!
The question is, why the fuck didnt D.Va finished with her ult at the end. You finished this with a good ending big ass explosion!
CrazedProfessional
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Another fix Blizzard needs to do is address the apparent impossibility of headshotting Lucio from behind. His hair counts as a bodyshot for some reason.
Man, we had one of those yesterday on PS4. 0-99%, lose the point. Other team goes 0-99%, we cap the point. Then, overtime just keeps going, and going, and going. We somehow actually won two matches in a row, but I swear the game took 35 minutes to play. I was so damn tense at the end of it.
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TheRedSnifit
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He states right in the video that the difference between playing an Overwatch server with 20 ticks and one with 60 ticks is over 30ms of latency. A guy with 30ms ping is suddenly at 60ms, which is high enough that getting shot through walls and the like is a constant issue. I would never play on a TF2 or CS:GO server with 60ms latency, but that's essentially the default if you're playing Overwatch. Your ping is higher, their ping is higher, the game becomes less fun to play.
Abstrusity
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Halve her normal speed but bring it up to a little faster on ice, and reduce the cone of fire on her frost gun so she can't make an ice surface and freeze you at the same time...OR, make it so she can't stop on ice, sort of like Lucio skating.
Not sure if they fixed it but if you jump right after you land a headshot it can count as in mid air.
And then goes on to explain why it's not nearly as big a deal as people make it out to be.
Hate that as I'm getting better, it's gonna be harder and harder for me to get some of the achievements, sorta like Hanzo's dragon or Junkrat's riptire since once people here it they run. And D.Va's ult, as soon as anyone hears nerf this they run for the quickest cover
Hoping I'll get lucky and be able to nab them though.
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Hoping I'll get lucky and be able to nab them though.
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Adding you. I'm 'Blind Rage'
yanipheonu
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See you made me think of spraying the ground to make you to faster.
Then I though of what would happen if you transplanted a Splatoon character into Overwatch. That'd actually be interesting.
A Splatoon style character would actually be interesting.
They are experimenting with Widowmaker changes apparently. What hero are you playing as? Is a one-shot kill by Widowmaker not only for squishy heroes with a headshot?
Last night I was having long queue times on the PS4/NA servers. I play around the same time every weekday evening and at most had a 30 second wait, last night was several times over 2 minutes. Is that an indication of smaller base or something with the matchmaking, Im level 32 btw..
Abstrusity
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It might be. I've found myself, at level 32, getting matched with people in the 90s and with stars. So if there is an MMR system, I'm somewhere around there, with the occasional dip back to "my level."
Those people are better than I am across the board, which is about par for the course with BLizzard's MMR. Why yes, I, a low plat, would love to lose against a top diamond player, thank you Blizzard, may I have another?
I feel like that's just PSN being PSN randomly. I had stretches of it taking 1-2 minutes to find a game, and others where I got games instantly. No rhyme, reason, or pattern to it from what I could tell.
Okay. For me it didn't take long to take matches but I would always end up search again. Only played for a few hours but the amount of times I was forced to search again was oddly high.
Excellent! Just added you as well! When will you be on? And if there is anyone else who would like to join in overwatch just going to leave my xbox one gamertag here once again: Andony O
PSN that may be it.. After I logged off, I realized I should have logged onto my PS secondary account that is level 2 and see what the wait was. When I googles someone said waits could be matching people with the same skills.
Tbf, zenyattas ult only makes you immune to damage. Everyone else just get high healing. Burst damage like the tire would still kill everyone near. Doesnt excuse peoples lack of intelligence though.
Sniffynose
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This is my main finding now that I know it's not my skill level or anything holding me back, I can shoot someone four times and maybe one hit will register on ps4, it pisses me off so much because I can't fix my physical location and best case I have around 60-80ms latency, but I can't help but feel with online games the home team advantage is massive. I am willing to bet the guys landing every shot are sitting with a 15ms ping to blizz' server and basically get to dance around everyone else because it sure seems like it.
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